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wonderfully
[ wuhn-der-fuh-lee, -der-flee ]
adverb
- in a way or to a degree that is excellent, great, truly satisfying, etc.:
There's nothing cheap about doing your own carpentry anymore, but this project turned out wonderfully.
- in a way or to a degree that arouses wonder or amazement; astonishingly:
For a first novel by such a young author, it shows wonderfully vivid powers of description and characterization.
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- un·won·der·ful·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of wonderfully1
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Example Sentences
Los Angeles was wonderfully exotic; a polyglot mix of Aztec, Incan, Mayan and New World scents and sounds.
It's a wonderfully playful, zesty turn that sees the 30-year-old dominate every scene he's in.
And that, in the end, is why this great raucous, raunchy, wonderfully readable novel is, really, quite unforgettable.
Then something wonderfully awful happened to help Roth complete his own libidinous opus.
As Samuel Johnson said, “when a man knows he is to be hanged … it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”
She chatted freely, discoursed on almost every topic, and during it all he saw what a wonderfully courageous woman she was.
So had he stopped there it would have been wonderfully well; but he had to go floundering innocently on.
As if within her bonny smile and unshrinking friendliness he beheld something new and wonderfully beautiful.
He was wonderfully quick in overtaking his fellow-pupils, and at six could read French and German fluently.
Considering its age, it is in a wonderfully good state of preservation, the original roof still being intact.
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